Missing Ethernet Port

[Tom Sparks]

--- On Sun, 17/7/11, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Missing Ethernet Port
> To: "Tom Sparks" <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au>
> Cc: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com, davidbow at tpg.com.au
> Received: Sunday, 17 July, 2011, 3:25 PM
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Tom
> Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au>
> wrote:
> > tell us a little the make and model of your friends
> computer
> >
> > What dose lspci and lsusb report on his computer?
> >
> > send us the dmesg file from his coomputer?
> 
> 
> All of this will help to determine whether the hardware has
> been
> recognised and setup correctly.  I know my netbook
> needed a
> proprietary driver which I was able to enable from the
> 'Hardware
> Drivers' application.
> 

you may even have to use NDISwrapper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDISwrapper )

> Cheers,
> Whytey
> 

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